Eric Clapton will honor Ginger Baker with a special tribute show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on February 17th, 2020. No artists have been announced yet besides Clapton himself, but proceeds will benefit Leonard Cheshire, a charity close to the Baker family. Tickets will go on sale Friday November 29th on …
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Neil Young‘s legendary unreleased album Homegrown will finally come out in 2020. He recorded it in 1975 and was on the verge of releasing it, going as far as commissioning cover art, when he decided at the last minute to shelf it in favor of Tonight’s The Night. “A record …
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Halsey joined Lady Antebellum onstage at the 2019 CMA Awards on Wednesday night, performing a medley of Lady A’s “What If I Never Get Over You” with her latest hit, “Graveyard.” With Dave Haywood on piano, Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley led “What If I Never Get Over You,” beautifully …
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Lee Ranaldo had an epiphany about his new album while wandering through a neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Each street on his journey was named after a woman — just their first names — and as he walked by Lydia, Kate, Dagmar, Harriett and Juno, Ranaldo wrote those names down. He …
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When Bernie Taupin auctioned off his extensive archive of original lyric manuscripts last year, many crucial Elton John songs were missing, including “Candle In The Wind,” “Border Song,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Bennie and the Jets” and “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting.” It turns out they’d been in the possession …
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Iggy Pop and the Pixies’ Frank Black marked what would have been Mose Allison’s 92nd birthday with unique takes on two tracks by jazz-blues great, “If You’re going to the City” and “Numbers on Paper.” Both will appear on an upcoming Allison tribute album, If You’re Going to the City, …
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FKA Twigs‘ albumMagdalene, her followup to 2014’s LP1, is out now. To coincide with its release, the U.K. performer sat down for an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple’s Beats 1 Radio in which she discussed her maturity on her new record “I’ve always written from a really honest place, …
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Niall Horan‘s rock single “Nice to Meet Ya” gets a dance floor boost with help from Diplo. For the remix, Diplo amps up the song to a full big room EDM rave burner. And, for the video, he re-created the alternate music video Horan released for the single, which featured …
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge provides some expert backup ukulele for her Fleabag co-star Olivia Colman on a cover of Portishead‘s “Glory Box.” The track appears on the BBC Children in Need charity compilation, Got It Covered, out today, November 1st. Prior to the album’s release, the BBC shared a behind-the-scenes clip documenting …
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UPDATE (10/29): Following the publication of this story, Sean Hall, one of the plaintiffs in the case, released the following statement to Rolling Stone:“We are happy the court unanimously sided with us. We simply refuse to sit still and have our creative work be culturally appropriated as if it never …
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